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George Eliot
Age: 61 †
Born: 1819
Born: November 22
Died: 1880
Died: December 22
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Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
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Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
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Whatever be thy fate today, Remember, this will pass away!
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But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?
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That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
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There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.
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What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime.
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How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him. . . .
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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
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Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.
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When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time.
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He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.
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The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.
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A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.
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You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.
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